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@Timberline Echoes wrote:
Another area I work in is writing and my first novel has just been published. It will officially be released on April 21.
TECongrats on your first publication!!! Looks like a book the wifey would like. I passed the link on to her.
Now you’ll have to write a Sci-Fi or Sci-Fact for me. 😀
Professional Twinkie taster.
Respiratory Terrorist…I mean Therapist. Working the night shift!!
@-cheeto- wrote:
yes I get to play with a several thousand dollar GPS unit almost every day for my job
but does it do a better job of finding tupperware in the woods?
Nope, I’ve never used it to hunt a cache. I have used it while hiding a few though. One in particular is kind of a tough hide. I saw someone hunting it so I stopped by to see if they needed help. They said they were looking for about a 1/2 hour for it. I asked the girl to stand exactly where the gps best zeroed out for her. Once she moved to that spot I told her to look down and her foot was about 6 inches from the cache.
On that same cache I had a person write and complain saying the coordinates absolutely HAD to be off by at least 50 feet because he couldn’t find it. I laughed pretty hard at that one (mainly because I have been annoyed by him in past logs for other people’s caches). 😆
I am employed by a major retailer that America trusts. Currently I write software that makes automated phone calls for them. I am also looking to either change careers or move to a different area of the company. Information Technology can be a very difficult area some times.
Dilbert works at every major company.
Jen and I both work at the same mail house in Eau Claire. I am the direct mail manager, she is the office manager. So, you know all that junk mail you get in the mailbox? That’s right, you can blame us!
We work 5 days a week and have two girls, 8 and 10. So, basically we are weekend warriors except for the occasional weekday local cache run after work. We do alot of our geocaching while on vacation and like how geocaching gives us a great excuse to get outside, get some exercise and enjoy nature!
Mrs. Rubeeslpr is a retired kindergarten teacher who now works part time as a travel agent. Mr. Rubeeslpr is a senior software engineer.
I’ve been in IT forever, or so it seems.. Worked for the Dept of Defense in the beginning, writing computer programs on punch cards! I spent 15 years in Holland then drug my Dutch husband home to the States in 2000….then drug him into Geo-caching… I think I see a pattern!
Now work for the VA making sure all the pretty medical pictures get put into their electronic medical record. Work at a computer all day, play/work on one at night, then couldn’t get enough and bought a GPSr!Mr Sloughfoot is a computer dinosaur having been in the business since April 1967, yes that really is 1967! I have always been on the hardware end of things including fixing the hardware, network wiring , installing fiber optic and all of the gizmos that hook it all together such as hubs, routers, switches, modems etc. I started working for Honeywell and even though they aren’t in the computer business anymore I have all 41 years of my seniority which doesn’t mean much other then bragging rights. We have been through 10 name changes in that time. Today I might be John from Dell , IBM, Apple (Yes Marc if you had bought the AppleCare program I would be your local support if that iMac broke), Sony or Canon at any particular time even though my paycheck doesn’t come from any of those companies. Honeywell sold a computer called the “Kitchen computer” through Nieman Marcus back in 1969. It was probably the first “home” computer ever. If they had ever sold any I would have worked on it because the computer down in the guts was a nice little 16 bit system that was sold by the thousands. I have supplied a link to an ad for it.
http://davidszondy.com/future/kitchen/kitchencomputer.htm
I have a lot of obsolete skills such as:
Being able to count in binary, octal, hexadecimal and ASCII
Hold a punch card up to the light and read the hollerith code.
I know what bits, bytes, nibbles, and words all are.
Program in Easycoder and GMAP ( and I know a macro is not a fish)
Use an oscilloscope. (can’t even spell it anymore)
Clean a drum storage unit. (a fore runner to the disk drive)
Scout out a computer room just by the hum of the fans.
World Traveler ( I have fixed computers in 9 countries)
I know why a floppy drive is called a floppy drive!
I can type the word “start” very fast.
I once spent a couple of days locked in a bunker while the
Middle East was at war and we thought we might be too.
I could order a beer in several languages before I quit drinking.Mrs Sloughfoot worked for 20 years in the Library at Hortonville H.S. before retiring. She now volunteers at the Appleton Library.
Trudy & I have taken-up new careers – snow shovelers. There is no money in it. by the time we have finished our own shoveling, we are too exhausted to go find paying jobs.
Wow, I just realized that I hadn’t replied to this thread.
I’m a shameless self-promoter.
ROGER:
Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say ‘ni’ at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
ARTHUR:
Did you say ‘shrubberies’?
ROGER:
Yes. Shrubberies are my trade. I am a shrubber. My name is ‘Roger the Shrubber’. I arrange, design, and sell shrubberies.
That was my profession until a fall from my roof last autumn. Now I personally can no longer install them – that’s why I employe Landscape Toonks.
In my parallel life, I carve wood.
In my parallel life, I Master Scouts
In my parallel life, I cache[/img]so many technical people, it’s time for a peon. i’m a builder of ct x-ray tubes for general electric. using screw drivers and wrenches. geocaching gets me outdoors. puzzle caches get me using my brains.
@rogheff wrote:
Have not seen a Magic card in year. Amazing that a geocacher is a character there !!! 😯
currently unemployed, and carefully dividing my time between caching and home improvements….does anybody know where i can get a free automatic tile layer and grouter? how about a free automated robot brainscan telepathic adjustable height multiple color house painter? i am able to travel to pick up…..thanks for the help……..i’m off to an interview 🙄 from my reading
is it possible that the legendary rogheff might have 2 or 3 of these laying around? possibly some partials to build one of each? (take two and make one kinda thing)By day I test computer software and web pages. Very boring. By night I am an Arborist, a hammock manufacturer / etailer and now sew / etail the NoHandsGPS body mount. For a very long time I have been trying to start my own business. Now I have set my goal for May of 2009. The TreeGhost products and services will go full time. Stay tuned for my Retirement Bash (from corporate America)!
I love the outdoors hiking and climbing trees. It made sense to turn my passions into businesses.
This Oct. my wife and I will be having our first baby (a girl). I am looking forward to taking her out geocaching. She already has her own GPSr. 🙂
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